Talk:DeathSpank

Systematic removal of references by User Teancum

I spend time sourcing a lot of information about DeathSpank from comments made about the game by Ron Gilbert on his blog. For some reason this user stripped out these references with no explanation in the article history. Can someone explain to me why anyone would do this?? Johnny "ThunderPeel2001" Walker (talk) 18:00, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

My best guess would be that Grumpy Gamer isn't a reliable source. That's the only thing that makes sense for removing a reference. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 18:05, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

If you're referring to this, then its probably because an article doesn't need citations in the introduction when that information is cited within the article body, since all the introduction is is a summary of what follows. The reference which you added is already in the article body as a citation for the same point; its number 15 in the current revision. I doubt Teacum is acting with any malice, its just that citing in the intro for those points was redundant. Torchiest, Grumpy Gamer is a valid source, its the blog of the game's designer and can be treated as a primary source.-- Sabre (talk) 18:08, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

That is what I'm talking about, but as you can see, the information from the first citation is NOT in the main body anywhere (even though the reference itself is -- there's nothing in the article to point to where this information comes from). Johnny "ThunderPeel2001" Walker (talk) 02:16, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Ah, that explains it then. The cites you (ThunderPeel) are trying to add are just redundant, and yes, it's preferable to have no cites in the lead. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 18:11, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

It's only preferable IF the information in the lead is repeated in the main body. In this case, it's not. Johnny "ThunderPeel2001" Walker (talk) 02:19, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Number of Quests

In the body of this article it says that DeathSpank includes "79 side quests in addition to the 33 quests required to advance the main plot". That's a total of 79+33 = 112 quests. However, I am just now at the end of the game and in my quest log it says I have completed 116 quests (and I still have the final quest left to do -- "Meet Sandy Past Gate", for a total of (at least) 117 quests). Unfortunately it doesn't provide me with an in-game breakdown of how many of those quests were side quests and how many were main quests though. Does anyone know where the discrepancy lies? It's the PS3 version of the game if that makes a difference. 99.250.242.46 (talk) 19:50, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

A few quests in the journal are already listed completed when the game begins, put there for background story or something. I imagine these fake quests are the cause of the discrepancy. -- Sabre (talk) 22:02, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

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